Question follow-through · 112774
Train Operating Companies: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what subsidy reduction targets her department set for train operating companies in England in (a) 2024/2025 and (b) 2025/2026.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 11 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 26 Feb 2026 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what subsidy reduction targets her department set for train operating companies in England in (a) 2024/2025 and (b) 2025/2026.
23 Feb 2026
Target answer date
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26 Feb 2026
Answer published
In 2024/25, the Department’s resource settlement for train operating companies was £2.4 billion, and in 2025/26 it is £2.0 billion. Business plans and net subsidy budgets for train operating companies were agreed to align with and deliver within these set...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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